William Shakespeare's Hamlet : a sourcebook / edited by Sean McEvoy.
This volume is useful reading for all those beginning detailed study of 'Hamlet' and seeking not only a guide to the play, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Shakespeare's text.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Contexts
- Revenge and tyrannicide
- The theatre and politics
- Marriage
- Madness and melancholy
- A summary of the story of 'Amleth' in Saxo Grammaticus' Historicae Danicae (1514)
- A homily against disobedience and wilful rebellion (1574)
- The education of a Christian prince (1516) / Desiderius Erasmus
- The essays : 'of revenge' / Francis Bacon
- 2. Interpretations
- Pre-Romantic criticism : can we admire the prince?
- Romantic criticism : why we should identify with the prince
- Modernist criticism : below the surface
- Late twentieth-century criticism (1) : psychoanalysis
- Late twentieth-century criticism (2) : history and politics
- The ancient and modern stages surveyed (1699) / James Drake
- Soliloquy, or advice to an author (1710) / Anthony Cooper
- Notes to the edition of Shakespeare's plays (1765) / Samuel Johnson
- 'Bristol lecture' (1813) / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Characters of Shakespeare's plays (1817) / William Hazlitt
- The interpretation of dreams (1900) / Sigmund Freud
- Shakespearean tragedy (1904) / A.C. Bradley
- 'Hamlet' in selected essays (1919) / T.S. Eliot
- What happens in 'Hamlet' (1935) / John Dover Wilson
- 'Telmah' (1986) / Terence Hawkes
- 'Desire and anxiety : circulations of sexuality in Shakespearean drama' (1992, essay originally published 1988) / Valerie Traub
- 'Are Shakespeare's tragic heroes "fatally flawed"? : discuss' (1989) / Graham Holderness
- '"Documents in madness" : reading madness and gender in Shakespeare's tragedies and early modern culture' / Carol Thomas Neely
- Cultural materialism and the politics of dissident reading (1992) / Alan Sinfield
- 'Watching Hamlet watching : Lacan, Shakespeare and the mirror/stage' (1996) / Philip Armstrong
- Reading Shakespeare historically / Lisa Jardine
- Revenge tragedy (1996) / John Kerrigan
- Shakespeare / Kiernan Ryan
- Hamlet in purgatory (2002) / Stephen Greenblatt
- Robert Hapgood, Shakespeare in production : 'Hamlet' / Edwin Booth
- Ronald Bryden (1967) on Peter Hall's production of Hamlet / David Warner
- Steven Pimlott, interviewed by the sourcebook editor / Samuel West
- Directed by Laurence Olivier : Anthony B. Dawson, Shakespeare in performance : 'Hamlet'
- Directed by Franco Zeffirelli : Neil Taylor, 'the films of Hamlet'
- Directed by Kenneth Branagh : Julie Sanders, 'the end of history and the last man'
- 3. Key passages
- The texts of Hamlet
- Plot summary
- A note on the passages
- Act 1, scene 1, lines 1-22 : sentry duty at Elsinore
- Act 1, scene 1, lines 61-119 : news of Fortinbras
- Act 1, scene 2, lines 64-86 : Claudius and Hamlet's first exchange
- Act 1, scene 2, lines 129-59 : first soliloquy
- Hamlet's private grief
- Act 1, scene 5, lines 9-112 : the ghost speaks to Hamlet
- Act 2, scene 2, lines 544-601 : second soliloquy
- Hamlet's response to the player's speech
- Act 3, scene 1, lines 56-88 : Hamlet's third soliloquy
- Act 3, scene 2, lines 181-264 : the performance of The murder of Gonzago
- Act 3, scene 3, lines 36-98 : Claudius prays; Hamlet's opportunity to strike
- Act 3, scene 4, lines 53-160 : the central part of the 'closet' scene
- Hamlet and Gertrude alone together
- Act 4, scene 5, lines 16-168 : Ophelia's madness and Laertes's rebellion
- Act 5, scene 1, lines 1-118 : the gravediggers
- Act 5, scene 2, lines 213-408 : the final duel; the deaths of Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes and Hamlet and the entry of Fortinbras
- 4. Further reading.